An open national proposition
Australia
Can Be
A long-form inquiry into an Australia that works better for ordinary people — practical enough to test, broad enough to keep evolving.
Download the free book draftThe premise
Public ideas matter most when they can be connected to ordinary life. This project asks how care, housing, useful technology, regional opportunity and public administration might be made more legible, humane and effective.
The proposition
This page presents the project’s central question: how might care, housing, useful technology, regional opportunity and public administration work better for ordinary people? The recovered source contains this summary and the linked Canberra notes; it does not contain a separate long-form text.
The page is a concise statement of the proposition and its current scope.
Free first editorial draft · October 2026
Martin's Thoughts:
Australia Can Be
Abundance, memory, robots and the human future.
My new book is beginning to take shape. This 24-page first editorial draft draws together thoughts about Australia, practical futures, disability, personal memory, robotics, long-distance freight and what abundance might actually be for.
A note on the draft: this is an editorial reconstruction from project records and recovered material, not a verbatim transcript. Names, dates and private circumstances will be checked and refined before publication.
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